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Top Five Lifetime Movie Actresses

A Seriously Random List IV / Dustin Rowles

Seriously Random Lists | October 22, 2008 | Comments (68)


I’m not sure that I’ve ever sat through an entire Lifetime Movie, though I know what they’re all about: Domestic abuse, abduction, sexual assault, stalking, eating disorders, abduction, child abuse, multiple personality disorder, and terminal illness. And it doesn’t take an expert to know who the five best Lifetime Movie Actresses of all time are. Certain actresses — almost uniformly former sitcom stars — just have the perfect face for Lifetime Movies. They also look strangely similar, in that round, innocent face sort of way. These are the top five:

5. Kellie Martin

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4. Tori Spelling

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3. Tiffani Amber Thiessen

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2. Valerie Bertinelli

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1. Tracy Gold

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Comments

I must confess - I enlisted these women and the my skills of erotic imagery when I was younger and perfecting the artistry of loving myself...

Ten bucks says I can still get the job done... Just gimme a minute to wrap up a few projects, 'kay?

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 5:21 PM

Holy crap, Carol from Growing Pains looks 50.

Posted by: Bucko at October 22, 2008 5:21 PM

Hey Bucko: I just went to my 30th high school reunion, and they took digital photos and e-mailed them to us. I shared them with my sister who is a couple years younger because she remembers these people, too.

ME: Look at so-and-so. She looks like she's 50!
SIS: You are 50, you idiot.
ME: Me, no, but, um, yeah, but um.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 22, 2008 5:37 PM

I'm not arguing with the others, but how does Tori Spelling look innocent? Innocent like a baby dragon, maybe.

Posted by: Sabrina at October 22, 2008 5:40 PM

You're probably also the first person ever to call her face round. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that. She was a French model, after all.

Posted by: Sabrina at October 22, 2008 5:43 PM

I have never watched a Lifetime movie, and I feel pretty good about myself for that.

Posted by: Slash at October 22, 2008 5:46 PM

Kellie Martin! I love you! I loved you on E.R.. I loved you in your guest spots on Seaquest D.S.V.. I just...I want to be with you, Kellie.

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at October 22, 2008 5:59 PM

Kellie Martin! I love you! I loved you on E.R.. I loved you in your guest spots on Seaquest D.S.V.. I just...I want to be with you, Kellie.

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at October 22, 2008 5:59 PM

LifeTime movies are about one thing only:
MEN ARE EVIL.

Can we do the men of LifeTime movies next because clearly the LifeTime people have Tim Matheson on speed dial.

Also highly recommended: currently "in" actors most likely to end up as LifeTime staples once their only hit fades from memory: My number one pick is Hayden Pannetiere (sp?).

Posted by: PaddyDog at October 22, 2008 6:00 PM

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Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at October 22, 2008 6:00 PM

Holy crap, Carol from Growing Pains looks 50.

Don't do anorexia, kids.

Don't Markie Post and Meredith Baxter-Birney have a few under their belts?

Goddamn Tim Matheson...where'd all that promise go? You're totally in the bottom half of post-"1941" careers, man!

And has Chris Makepeace done any? He could be the safe guy or the unusually wimpy looking villain!

Posted by: Jay at October 22, 2008 6:08 PM

Don't Markie Post and Meredith Baxter-Birney have a few under their belts?


EXACTLY, obviously this list is worthless.

Baxter-Birney is the quintessential victim-actress-spurned wife on Lifetime. NEY, she IS Lifetime.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 22, 2008 6:25 PM

"...NEY, she IS Lifetime..."

Wasn't Baxter-Birney doing these types of flick prior to Lifetime? I guess what I'm asking is, was Lifetime created for the sole purpose of giving BB a playground to get sexually/mentally/physically/psychologically abused? Does she sit in a giant chamber atop a velvet throne? Does Queen Baxterbirney don a crown of thorns which causes her to bleed re-recycled stories of woe, whether it be losing a baby, living with dark secrets, or drunkenly getting it on with the local high-school football quarterback, despite the fact you're twenty years older than him, but there's something there - something in his eyes that burns and makes you feel alive - ALIVE - and even though you know it's wrong and could cost you everything you've worked toward since getting out of that podunk town when you were eighteen, you can't resist tearing off his letter jacket and ravaging him behind the bleachers, rolling around like two crazed animals among the cigarette butts, empty pop cans and shattered dreams?

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 6:42 PM

#1 Vince Vaughn. He was in one about steriods back in the day.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 22, 2008 6:43 PM

Y'all forgot Melissa Gilbert.

Posted by: Az at October 22, 2008 6:44 PM

Wow, where to begin? Pam Dawber might be the queen of Lifetime, but don't forget Dana Delaney, Victoria Principal, Jaclyn Smith, Sharon Lawrence (Sipowicz's way-too-good-for-him wife from NYPD Blue), Victoria Hamel (Hill Street Blues), Helen Slater, Judith Light, Anne Archer ....

Name just about any washed-up 80s or 90s television star, and I'll give you 3-2 odds she has at least one Lifetime movie, probably more. The list is long but distinguished.

How do I know all this, you ask? Because while the rest of you are sleeping the sleep of the just, I am flipping channels at 3 am, reading the program descriptions and laughing my ass off at career paths. Then weeping silently. Then laughing some more. Then smoking some dope and going to sleep.

And, you'll be horrified to know, Carla from Scrubs has some kind of deal with them now that her gravy train has reached the terminal.

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at October 22, 2008 6:44 PM

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 6:42 PM


Aaah, are you gonna be okay?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 22, 2008 6:47 PM

Skitz, is on fire!

Posted by: Admin11 at October 22, 2008 6:49 PM

What about Alexandra Paul? Anyone? Have you never seen Gospel of Deceit? I can't come here anymore.

Posted by: tigi at October 22, 2008 6:54 PM

I agree with BSlim on this, any mention of Lifetime without MBB is a travesty.

Posted by: dylanj at October 22, 2008 7:05 PM

Wasn't Sherilynn Fenn in a lifetime movie? She's foxy!

Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at October 22, 2008 7:19 PM

Doesn't Alyssa Milano belong on this list? She is exceedingly gorgeous, comparatively.

Posted by: Cindy at October 22, 2008 7:25 PM

At a sorority the other day, I saw a sign advertising some sort of Lifetime sponsored fundraiser to end spousal abuse. I turn to the girl next to me and say, "If Lifetime ends spousal abuse, they'll have no programming." Her face told me she didn't share my dark sense of humor. I quickly retreated.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 22, 2008 7:31 PM

You know what would have really made that story, Optimus? If you woulda hauled off and popped her right in the kisser. Then you coulda ran off, going "WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOP-etc..."

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 7:38 PM

More like no sense of humor at all.

Posted by: Cindy at October 22, 2008 7:38 PM

Rhyme

that was a clever line and if we cant laugh about spousal abuse then the terrorists have already won. I salute you sir.

Posted by: dylanj at October 22, 2008 7:49 PM

Is that a Larry from the Stooges style "Whoop Whoop Whoop Nyah Nyah Nyah Whoop!"

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 22, 2008 7:57 PM

I saw Janine Turner in a really, really bad Lifetime movie not too long ago. It just made me sad. Surprisingly, it wasn't a "woman in peril" type of movie at all. It was more of a "Beauty and the Beast" type story. Still, it just made me sad. Although, really, which is worse - starrng in a Lifetime movie or shilling for medicated eye drops?

Posted by: elsie at October 22, 2008 8:15 PM

Starring in a Lifetime movie. At least with the medicated eyedrops you get some free swag. With the Lifetime movie, all you get is shame.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 22, 2008 8:26 PM

I have a friend whose wife is addicted to Lifetime movies. And being a good guy, he'll watch them with her.

One day he came in to work just outraged. He had sat through an entire Lifetime movie the day before...and it *wasn't* even based on a real event. He felt gypped.

Posted by: Wednesday at October 22, 2008 8:40 PM

Rowles? Are you trying to piss me off? Does Melissa Gilbert mean nothing to you?

Posted by: greer at October 22, 2008 9:07 PM

One of our clients directed a Lifetime movie starring Ricki Lake. I was able to listen in on phone calls about the on-set inner workings.

I only stopped on the Lifetime channel and actually watched one of these movies in its entirety once. That was because Tracy Pollan was starring in it, and I was a big Family Ties fan back in the day and happy to see her again.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 22, 2008 9:09 PM

What's up with all headshots except for the super-extra-helping-of-bosom Tori Spelling photo?

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 22, 2008 9:10 PM

Q: What the hell is wrong with Tori Spelling's boobs?

A: The same disease that ate her face! AHAHAHAHA.

....I'll go sit in a corner.

Posted by: figgy at October 22, 2008 9:39 PM

Have you ever seen titty in a Lifetime movie Darth?

Posted by: Admin11 at October 22, 2008 9:46 PM

Susan Lucci

Nicole Eggert

Kate Jackson

Sally Field

Jennie Garth

Posted by: sushi at October 22, 2008 9:52 PM

I've finally realized why that photo of Bertinelli bothers me so much - it looks like someone came running by and threw a handfull of O'Donnell on her face... seriously... Someone get to the MurderTank crime lab toot-sweet and validate my uncomfortableness! You, Corleone sitting there with a drink in your hand... Get to the lab! No... no, there's not a payroll but it's... JUST FUCKING DO IT! Jesus people! If there's a face terrorist among the general populace hellbent on O'Donnelling people that used to be in my masturbatory files, God only knows where it'll end up next! Allingsworth you want your Big Mac and a sixer? Find out who ruined Barbara's face and it's yours... What?! No, Mackenzie Phillips has ALWAYS LOOKED LIKE THAT! Fucking A, people - who's next? It's not always gonna be the rich and formerly famous - could be you Cindy, could be you too, JenK who knows? Oh, I see you laughing over there, socalled - you think the O'Donnellrax only targets women? HAHAHAHAHA! Think again, brother - IT AIN'T GENDER SPECIFIC! We've got a crisis on our hands, here! Gimme a sec to take off my trousers here... BECAUSE IT HELPS ME THINK, THAT'S WHY!!


[...pours four fingers off Scotch and stares into space. Minimus twirls a quarter between his turkey fingers...]

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 9:55 PM

JUDITH LIGHT!!!!

Posted by: Kash at October 22, 2008 10:06 PM

Oh what the fuck Skitz, you think you'll stay pretty all your life? You'd best roll yourself a doob while you're at it.

Posted by: Cindy at October 22, 2008 10:17 PM

Oh... Oh, Cindy, how quickly you've turned... I remember ...(choke)... I... I remember thinking the day that I met you - "Now there's a stable crew member for the MurderTank". But now that I see where your mind's at - all twisted up in a drug chimichanga - now that I see that, I realize what a fool I've been all along. Well hear me good and hear me again, young Missy - there's no place for quitters here! You've just gotta buck up and... (sob)... you've just gotta think... (choke)... think outside that envelope that's not letting you spread your wings and fly... You... You've got to... You've got to stay golden PonyCindy... stay golden...

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 10:42 PM

Seriously? If I don't get some sort of Pajiboscar for that previous post, I'm having my mouth custom-stretched for Harry Knowles' floppy schlong... I'm serious,,, One foot's out the door, Rowles... I'm a hot commodity among the feeble minded, brother... Roll the dice...

Posted by: Skitz at October 22, 2008 10:51 PM

I gotta get me a drug chimichanga. I like extra chihuahua in mine.

And give Skitz the fuckin' PajibOscar (TM) already.

Posted by: bucdaddy at October 22, 2008 11:28 PM

Put the man out of his misery!

Posted by: figgy at October 22, 2008 11:33 PM

Aw Skittums, I always wanted to be in a Kubrick film.

I might have gone with the weird orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut, but without Tom Cruise.

Hey Management! How's about a Skitz top 10 week?

Posted by: Cindy at October 22, 2008 11:49 PM

Where's Gail O'Grady? She did one about girls becoming sexualized too early? Or was it internet predators? Either way, her teenage daughter was doing the nasty and Gail was a hypocritical single mom because she got knocked up after a fling with a co-worker but still had the nerve to tell her daughter not to be a ho.

And I would put Kellie Martin much higher on that list. When was the last time Valerie B. did a lifetime movie? She's too busy hawking Jenny Craig frozen dinners.

Posted by: Austin at October 23, 2008 12:16 AM

Jessie Spano has to be on the list. She has done some quality lifetime movies.

Posted by: brian at October 23, 2008 1:30 AM

Skitt, I feel you. I also crave that #1 Spot validation. I don't care about the t-shirt, I get off on the fact that I'm respected in one little corner of the internet. That sweet sweet self-esteem. Better than any prescription drugs I may have taken tonight. Whoa! I swear I just saw a brownish flash like a chipmunk just ran by my window. And I am on the 4th floor. And it's one in the morning.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at October 23, 2008 1:57 AM

Two problems:
1.That's the first picture of Bertinelli (since that first horrible series) where she wasn't totally hot.

2.Where the hell is Mary Kay Place? As my wife puts it: She's a GREAT crier!

Posted by: Walter at October 23, 2008 5:28 AM

1. Optimus, whatever the banner or sign was outside the house, that would've been an amazing sight gag in itself. You were just pointing it out, and with economy, and causing me to nearly "hork", as Nosek says, my coffee. I always tell people to embrace life as a black comedy anyway. Because it is. Deal with it and proceed snickering at yourself.

2. Wasn't "Babycakes" on Lifetime? No Lifetime lifers in there, but Ricki Lake and Craig Sheffer made a helluva team! Plus I'll go to my grave believing Stephin Merritt sang the theme song (all due credit to college girlfriend and her roommate who let me in on their fandom of this ugly duckling classic).

Posted by: Jay at October 23, 2008 7:08 AM

No, it cant be socalled, not my spicy spunky Judy Reyes in a Lifetime deal!!!! Girl has got WAY too much attitude for these weepy spineless victim roles.
If her husband tried to slap her around, she'd smack him with a hot iron, trip him with the electric cord and beat him senseless with the ironing board before blinding him with spray starch to the eyes.
And then make him apologize for even THINKING about messing up her hair. She would later let him go so he could go pick up Chinese take out and would fuck him senseless on the kitchen floor.
Love me some Carla.

Posted by: MissSmilla at October 23, 2008 8:12 AM

Skitz, you can have the DildOscar for now.

Posted by: SofĂ­a at October 23, 2008 9:25 AM

Ugh, this just gives me flashbacks of when I had to watch this.

::shudder::

Posted by: TK at October 23, 2008 9:29 AM

Wow...Valerie Bertinelli WASN'T number one? You best watch yourself Dustin, some housewives might see this as blasphemy.

I mean, 90% of what they watch might just be Lifetime Movies, and they'll bet dollars to bon bons that you're just like one of those "evil" men in Lifetime movies. They'll cry that you don't understand them, that you're holding them back, even that you're sleeping with your secretary (or the pool boy, if they're trying to think "outside their box".)

You know what's gonna happen next, my friend? They're gonna kill you. And you know what...Lifetime, with their evil grip on most of the women of America, will make a movie about how they "found the strength in their soul to say 'enough is enough. I am woman, hear me roar.'" And Valerie Bertinelli, with her "sorta cute after the office christmas party" pudge and her dead, lifeless eyes...she's gonna play the woman who skull fucked you to death with a chainsaw in the movie.

Watch your back man, we can't afford to lose you. Seriously, if you were ever gone from here, shit would erupt into a riot in no time flat. (I see you sharpening your blade, Conrad!)

Posted by: Mike R. at October 23, 2008 9:34 AM

I can't believe there has been no mention of Nancy McKeon. Not only has she been in a ton of these movies she was the star of the Lifetime Movie Network commercials. You know the ones where she would tell you to call your cable provider and make sure they know you want to watch more of these shitty movies.

Posted by: jmurae at October 23, 2008 9:40 AM

Elsie:

Re: Janine Turner, you know what's sadder than LifeTime or medicated eye drops? becoming a born-again evangelical and shilling your own line of "Yoga for Christians" DVDs in which all the "pagan" Sanskrit terms are replaced by Chritian terms. No more "namaste" (which actually means "the light in me salutes the light in you"), it's been replaced by "the Lord Jesus Christ loves you".

Posted by: PaddyDog at October 23, 2008 9:43 AM

Candace motherfuckin' Cameron! I don't think she should be on the list, but I mention her because she was in at least two awesome Lifetime movies: one in which she was beaten and killed by her boyfriend Fred Savage (No One Would Tell), and one in which she was date raped by Mark-Paul Gosselaar (She Cried No).

Posted by: tbean at October 23, 2008 10:27 AM

PaddyDog:

Is all that about Janine Turner really true?

Man... Jesus gets all the chicks.

Posted by: firedmyass at October 23, 2008 11:06 AM

"...she was beaten and killed by her boyfriend Fred Savage (No One Would Tell)..."

Is that what the image at the top is?

Posted by: Skitz at October 23, 2008 11:16 AM

Good call Skitz! That is indeed an image from No One Would Tell. Shows you how attentive I am.

Posted by: tbean at October 23, 2008 11:31 AM

firedmyass:

I was wondering the same thing. Apparently it is true. See for yourself... http://www.janineturner.com/purchase.html

Except it's not yoga anymore, it's Christoga.

Oh my... I just don't even know what to say... Except that it still makes me sad.

Posted by: Elsie at October 23, 2008 11:40 AM

Yeah... I apparently can't work tags today. Sorry.

Posted by: elsie at October 23, 2008 11:42 AM

Fun thing to do with friends:

Watch an all-day marathon of Lifetime movies (usually with a Valerie Bertinelli theme, a spouse abuse them, a rape theme, etc) get completely baked or drunk out of your mind and sit back and enjoy. SO much more fun!!!

Meredith Baxter-Burney, Valerie Bertinelli and Tracey Gold are the trinity of Lifetime movies, just on the generational factor and sheer numbers done.

"Lifetime....cause it's television for women. Television for women...wasn't there always a woman getting beaten on that channel? And now, Meredith Baxter-Burney gets beaten with a rod. A Lifetime Original rod..."-comedian Jim Gaffigan

Posted by: scorzi at October 23, 2008 12:18 PM

meredith baxter is in everything lifetime

Posted by: courtney at October 23, 2008 12:29 PM

they made us watch both No One Would Tell and She Cried No in school. it was...disturbing

Posted by: tc at October 23, 2008 1:08 PM

What, no former members of the original Charlie's Angels? Oh, the humanity!

Posted by: summerteeth at October 23, 2008 4:08 PM

How could you overlook Judith Light!!!!!

Posted by: laurie at October 23, 2008 10:13 PM

You got the order all wrong. Kellie Martin should definitely be #1. The combination of such a wholesome, sweet face on top of such a voluptuous body is unbeatable.

Posted by: ZZ at October 26, 2008 4:31 PM

Whoa, whoa - how can this list lack one Meredith Baxter-Birney? And what about Jo from Facts of Life? She was thrown down the stairs in a few of those lifetime movies.

Oh hell naw.

Posted by: thebombscribe at October 26, 2008 6:01 PM